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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump directed his staff to order the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to prepare a statement that Hurricane Dorian posed a significant threat to Alabama as of Sept. 1, in contrast to what the agency's forecasters were predicting at the time. Trump instructed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to direct NOAA's leaders to issue a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed his staff to order the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to prepare a statement that Hurricane Dorian posed a significant threat to Alabama as of Sept. 1, in contrast to what the agency’s forecasters were predicting at the time. Trump instructed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to direct NOAA’s leaders to issue a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed his staff to order the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to prepare a statement that Hurricane Dorian posed a significant threat to Alabama as of Sept. 1, in contrast to what the agency’s forecasters were predicting at the time. Trump instructed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to direct NOAA’s leaders to issue a...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump directed his staff to order the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to prepare a statement that Hurricane Dorian posed a significant threat to Alabama as of Sept. 1, in contrast to what the agency's forecasters were predicting at the time. Trump instructed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to direct NOAA's leaders to issue a...

A federal weather service walk-back of a statement that contradicted President Trump's statements about the hurricane risk to Alabama came after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top NOAA officials. Ross, a Trump loyalist and former banker, delivered the telephone threat by phone from Greece, where he was traveling on government business. The National Oceanic...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting chief scientist said in an email to colleagues Sunday that he is investigating whether the agency's response to President Donald Trump's Hurricane Dorian tweets constituted a violation of NOAA policies and ethics. Also on Monday, the director of the National Weather Service broke with NOAA leadership over its handling...